Working with Sessions
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The Fitness REST API lets you create and obtain sessions. Sessions represent a time interval
during which users perform a fitness activity.
Sessions are represented by the Users.session resource.
Activities are stored in an 'ActivityType'
integer.
Insert a session
This example demonstrates how to insert a session.
- HTTP method
- PUT
- Request URL
https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/sessions/someSessionId- Request body
{
"id": "someSessionId",
"name": "My example workout",
"description": "A very intense workout",
"startTimeMillis": 1396710000000,
"endTimeMillis": 1396713600000,
"version": 1,
"lastModifiedToken": "exampleToken",
"application": {
"detailsUrl": "http://example.com",
"name": "Foo Example App",
"version": "1.0"
},
"activityType": 1
}
- Response
The response is a 200 OK status code. The response body contains a JSON representation of the
session.
- Curl command
$ curl --header "Authorization: Bearer ya29.1.yourtokenvalue" -X PUT \
--header "Content-Type: application/json;encoding=utf-8" -d @createsession.json \
"https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/sessions/someSessionId"
List existing sessions
This example demonstrates how to list existing sessions from April 2014.
- HTTP method
- GET
- Request URL
https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/sessions?startTime=2014-04-01T00:00:00.000Z&endTime=2014-04-30T23:59:59.999Z- Request body
- None.
- Response
- The response is a
200 OK status code. The response body contains JSON representations of all
existing sessions that match the start and end times provided in the query parameters.
- Curl command
$ curl --header "Authorization: Bearer ya29.1.yourtokenvalue" -X GET \
--header "Content-Type: application/json;encoding=utf-8" \
"https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/sessions?startTime=2014-04-01T00:00:00.000Z&endTime=2014-04-30T23:59:59.999Z"
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